david hoffmeister wikipedia for Dummies
If your view of *Abudarham, that the haftarah was instituted throughout the persecutions of *Antiochus Epiphanes in its place to the proscribed examining from the Pentateuch, can be accepted, it might equally are a form of protest against the royal aspirations on the *Hasmoneans, who were not of royal stock. A curious reference to David occurs with